President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Session One on “Investing in Africa’s Future,” at the U.S. Department of State (More here)

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President Barack Obama greets Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza

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President Barack Obama shares a laugh with Ambassador Susan Rice, the President’s National Security Advisor, during a lunch he hosted for over 50 African leaders and their delegations at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

My greatest chagrin is that I have a copy of it in my TOD notes but cannot activate it! I’ll try this dead one instead and you can imagine that the eyes are swiveling back and forth., but staying on you as you approach. ‹(•¿•)›

TY, Df. I do have a ‘new’ stand but it’s downstairs and I’m too lazy to go get it; and anyway I never got its fan to work since I bought it a week/two ago. Problem is I threw out the box and the instruction sheet as soon as I opened it, assuming that all I’d need to do is plug it into the laptop. By the time I did try to plug it in 2 days later I got no fan response. It can raise the laptop though for natural air to circulate around.

Yes…raise it up with a book that’s the right height for you to be comfortable when you use it…if I don’t have the book under mine, it feels weird now 🙂 You can always get the instructions for your particular computer online to see what you need to know. Just sayin’ sweetness!

🙄 Never thought of checking online for the instructions for the laptop stand/fan. Duh? I’m definitely not a child of the 21st C. Will do so tomorrow when the name, model# etc will be readily accessible.

He can do that nicely without actually saying the words, as we’ve seen. Sad part is that one time in a million those pukes in the MSM might get the story out to the American people, so the President remains gracious. In my head, I hear the old gong from The Gong Show being hit every time one of ’em asks a question.

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I was envisioning something similar today, Amk. However, instead of using your words, and being called uppity /arrogant etc, I was thinking of him asking, ‘Do you have a question related to the topic of the presser?’ Or saying something like, ‘As a courtesy to our invited guests, would you stick with questions that do not ignore their presence?’

😀 Of course he’d still be labeled ‘uppity’, but it was great imagining.

Maybe THAT was part of the WHPC problem with the African countries summit…they couldn’t pronounce their names! We better just ignore this historic meeting because…tongue won’t work and brain doesn’t function!

It could, hf2, and talk about President Obama frosting Bibi’s butt (and all his #Neoconster buddies in the US) if he does the deal with Iran while effectively telling Bibi, you dudes are safe from Hamas rockets because of US, and we aren’t going to tolerate your wholesale slaughter of Palestinians any longer (my less than elegant rephrasing of the message from the President, Ambassador Rice, Ambassador Power and SOS Kerry these past several days).

HARTFORD — The number of people in Connecticut without health insurance has dropped by 50 percent since 2012, according to research findings released Wednesday by the state’s health insurance exchange.

Access Health CT, the state-run onlinehealth insurance marketplace created under the federal Affordable Care Act, has enrolled more than 256,000 state residents in private health plans or Medicaid since the website launched last fall.

CEO Kevin Counihan said at a press conference with the governor Wednesday that the percentage of state residents who lack health coverage dropped from 7.9 percent at the start of the open enrollment period to 4 percent now. About 286,000 residents did not have insurance before the launch of the marketplace, and 147,000 in the state are still without coverage.

“Nobody expected us to be down to 4 percent,” said Counihan, who compared the figure to those of European countries with national health insurance, where uninsured rates hover around 2 percent to 3 percent. He said effective operations and outreach “resulted in one of the lowest uninsured rates of any other state in the country.”

First, thank you Nerdy W., for again giving us such a lovely array of beautiful photos of these events taking place throughout this great administration. You are so appreciated by me, Nerdy W.
Another miss for me: A lovely belated Happy Birthday to our CollegeKay and to our lovely GoBrooklyn. I hope your celebrations were wonderful.

Amk. I want one of the cute ones in the family unit. Have you named them?

CarolMae, you were on my mind so heavily last evening. I am so elated to see that you were here today. I hope all is going well with your recovery. CarolMae, I am so grateful that Chips presented this place for this beautiful TOD family. I have always felt that our TOD family was meant to be together. We have this sweet connection to each other that there are unique times when we think of each other, and then the next day, the person shows up in the most wonderful moment. {{{{{{{{{{Lots of loving hugs from my space to yours.}}}}}}}}}}}}.

Goodnight to my Chips and my handsome grandson, Danny. And a lots of loving appreciation to you Chips for being such a strength of true respect and support to PBO. You give me continued hope, Chips by keeping this space with such grace that is so important for PBO. Our TOD family will keep his back and we surely will continue to take very good care of our health so that we will be able to do the hard work that will be expected of each of us in Nov. As Bobfr reminds us: #Together We Will and #TrustBarack.